ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,112, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"UCI multiplexing for different levels of reliability" was invented by Wei Yang (San Diego), Yi Huang (San Diego), Hwan Joon Kwon (San Diego) and Runxin Wang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE). The UE encodes a first uplink control information (UCI) payload of a first priority level to generate a first codeword. The UE modifies the first codeword based on a second UCI payload, wherein information about the second UCI payload is conveyed via a modification of th...